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| Searching... Subject: YIDDISH Matches Found: 23 CH'VIL SCHREIBEN A POEM AUF YIDDISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I want to write a poem in yiddish Last Line: Not quite consumed, not even %by the heat of my yiddish poem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poetry And Poets; Yiddish FROM WHERE THE FEET GROW, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Curious how yiddish won't translate easily Last Line: How charmed by my lust Variant Title(s): Where The Feet Grow, Sel Subject(s): Yiddish IMPROVISATIONS ON YIDDISH, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Yiddish JOY OF THE YIDDISH WORD, SELS., by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let me through the joy of the yiddish word Last Line: And you sigh in your ignited dream: %I come, I come Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Yiddish MAME LOSHEN, THE MOTHER TONGUE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER First Line: Yiddish, my first language, you were Subject(s): Yiddish MAME LOSHEN, THE MOTHER TONGUE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Yiddish, my first language, you were Last Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Yiddish MAME-LOSHEN, YIDDISH, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Long ago %we spoke a mother tongue Last Line: They are ghosts, %once warm and loving syllables: %smoke... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yiddish MORNING, by MIRIAM ULINOVER Poem Source First Line: On sabbath dawn it grows sunny and fair Subject(s): Yiddish MOVE ON, YIDDISH POET, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yiddish poet %poorest of all poets Last Line: Your crown city of safed %is waiting for you Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish THE CHESSBOARD IS ON FIRE, by AARON FOGEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ant stood up on two legs looks like a chesspiece maybe a bishop Last Line: Story. The story of the stories isn't a store. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolot, Jim Subject(s): Chess; Translating & Interpreting; Yiddish YIDDISH, by ROBERT D. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: A long time ago we all sat on the trolley car Last Line: Comfort me, little father in heaven. %my gloves, my small buttons undone Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH, by JUDITH HERZBERG Poem Source First Line: My father sang the songs %his mother used to sing Last Line: But it misses you Subject(s): Jews; Yiddish YIDDISH, by JOSEPH LEFTWICH Poem Source First Line: Yiddish is not dead, %to wear a shroud %a garment we never again change Last Line: That suits her best. %she selects what she wants %from whatever is there Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: On the second anniversary of liberation Last Line: Lithuanian learned from my father %it didn't matter Subject(s): Jews - Women; Lithuania; Yiddish YIDDISH, by S. SIMCHOVITCH Poem Source First Line: Yiddish, my life's crown-tongue Last Line: To you betrothed, not to part, %that my heart be dwelling for your solitude %your sad beauty in me n Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH, by ABRAHAM SUTSKEVER Poem Source First Line: Shall I begin at the beginning %like abraham Last Line: And wake the coming generations with a roar like thunder Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH BETWEEN THE ROCKS, by ISAAC GOLDKORN Poem Source First Line: Some lament your imminent demise Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH FOR GOYS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a word -- shlep, or nebish, or shlemiel -- Last Line: He used to say. That shmuck hitler could kill %a tough momzer like me? Subject(s): Jews; Language; Yiddish YIDDISH MUSES, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: They arrive, always, unexpected Last Line: Than any memory its walls and domes Subject(s): Yiddish YIDDISH POETS, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: When I think about us -- yiddish poets Last Line: And suddenly all my words are mute Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish YIDDISHKAYT, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yiddish poets %why such yearning Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yiddish |
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